Essays on the Eighteenth Century, Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth BirthdayClarendon Press, 1945 - 288 pages |
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Page 108
... wrote good English , they certainly did not speak it . When Boswell's father , the judge , deplored the ascendancy which Johnson had established over his son , he did not say that the young man must be mad to follow an old schoolmaster ...
... wrote good English , they certainly did not speak it . When Boswell's father , the judge , deplored the ascendancy which Johnson had established over his son , he did not say that the young man must be mad to follow an old schoolmaster ...
Page 124
... wrote an elegy on the death of Anne , under the title of ' Constantia ' ( 1768 ) , and on Langhorne's own death , A. B. Portal , the pub- lisher , wrote a poem which is entirely without merit . Gray evidently had a poor opinion of him ...
... wrote an elegy on the death of Anne , under the title of ' Constantia ' ( 1768 ) , and on Langhorne's own death , A. B. Portal , the pub- lisher , wrote a poem which is entirely without merit . Gray evidently had a poor opinion of him ...
Page 164
... wrote to Queeney : ' Tis a separate Peace the French are trying for : hoping to make Great Britain desert her Allies , and suffer them to ravage Italy with- out molestation . To this Event many Causes seem to cooperate : the Desire of ...
... wrote to Queeney : ' Tis a separate Peace the French are trying for : hoping to make Great Britain desert her Allies , and suffer them to ravage Italy with- out molestation . To this Event many Causes seem to cooperate : the Desire of ...
Contents
THE CONCISENESS OF SWIFT HERBERT DAVIS Smith College | 33 |
THE INSPIRATION OF POPES POETRY JOHN BUTT Bedford | 65 |
WHERE ONCE STOOD THEIR PLAIN HOMELY DWELL | 80 |
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